Nicholas Testa is a former professional baseball

Professional baseball

Baseball is a team sport which is played by several professional leagues throughout the world. In these leagues, and associated farm teams, players are selected for their talents and are paid to play for a specific team or club system....

 catcher

Catcher

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 and coach

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. He played briefly in both Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

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 and Nippon Professional Baseball.

Testa began his professional career in at the age of 17 with the Newburgh Hummingbirds

Newburgh Hummingbirds

The Newburgh Hummingbirds were a North Atlantic League baseball team based in Newburgh, New York, USA that played for part of the 1946 season. Managed by Frank Novosel, they because a road team on May 23 and eventually moved to Walden, New York, USA to become the Walden Hummingbirds. They played...

. Testa had one of the briefest major league baseball careers ever. He played just one inning of one game for the San Francisco Giants

San Francisco Giants

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 in , never coming to bat in the major leagues. In his one chance on defense, he committed an error. Later that season, Testa was named the team's bullpen coach.

Testa played for several more seasons in minor league baseball

Minor league baseball

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, eventually making his way to Japan in . That season, he played in 57 games for the Daimai Orions

Chiba Lotte Marines

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, batting .136 with 5 RBI.

Testa later served as a coach for the St. Lucie Legends

St. Lucie Legends

The St. Lucie Legends was a U.S. baseball team and one of the eight original franchises that began play in the Senior Professional Baseball Association in 1989....

 in the Senior Professional Baseball Association

Senior Professional Baseball Association

The Senior Professional Baseball Association was a winter baseball league based in Florida for players age 35 and over . The league began play in 1989 and had eight teams in two divisions and a 72 game schedule...

 during their lone year of existence in . He also coached baseball at Lehman College

Lehman College

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